Psychological Non Epileptic Seizures
Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group

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Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES)/ functional seizure (FS) conference 2021!  It is back on-bigger and better| Jul 17th, 2021
For six years straight, the Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group (NEREG), hosted an annual PNES conference for patients, caregivers, and in the later years, for health professionals too. Our last conference was held on 2019 and then, as we all know, the world ground to a halt due to the 2020 pandemic. Although...
Posted by on Jun 30th, 2021 in News | 2 comments

Meet the new Executive Director of FND Hope USA

There is so much that we need to do to improve the lives of those living with PNES.  We definitely need to increase treatment options and to ensure a growing number of clinicians are available to treat this...
Posted by on Jun 16th, 2021 in News | 0 comments

Recommendations for summer reading: a variety of choices about and by persons living with Psychogeni...

Psychoeducation: refers to some form of intervention (lecture, support group meeting or published materials) that aims to educate the audience members/readers about a specific health condition, provides...
Posted by on Jun 15th, 2021 in News | 0 comments

As someone who has PNES, what should I know about the COVID-19 vaccines?

If we can say anything for sure about COVID-19 is that there is still a lot that we do not know. Making matters worse, at times experts have communicated confusing and contradictory information to the public....
Posted by on Apr 15th, 2021 in News | 4 comments

The debate on what to call psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES), non-epileptic attach disorder ...

This feature article was just published by the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) and summarizes meetings that took place last...
Posted by on Mar 13th, 2021 in News | 4 comments

What if a patient has psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) but does not report any significant ...

It is important for mental health professionals to be cognizant of this because these patients exist and are encountered in psychotherapists’ offices with certain regularity. For decades if not centuries...
Posted by on Jan 13th, 2021 in News | 6 comments

Shame and Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES): research topic?

A few weeks ago, I was contacted by one of the leaders in the field of research of Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES); he proposed a project to several professionals in the field of PNES focusing on a...

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